Cleaning, separating, and paralleling textile fibers



ot.26,192e. 1,604,406

W. W. GAYLE CLEANING, SEPARATlNG, AND PARALLELING TEXTILE FIBERS Filed June ll. 1925' gnam/nto@ Patented 26, 1926i.

UNITED sTATEs 1,604,406 PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER WINN GAYLE, OF GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HAL TO NORMAN W. GAYLE, F MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA.

' CLEANING, SEPABATDIG, AND PARALLELING TEXTILE- FIBERS.

Application led'June 11, 1925. Serial No. 36,541.

This invention has for its prime object to provide an improved method or process for opening, cleaning, 'separating and paralleling textile bers, adapted to take ad- I vantage of the action oi the bers under elec.- trical influence. It has been determined that when 'a current of high voltage or a wire supplied with high voltage is placed near Y textile bers, the bers tend to spring apart from each other and are attractedy to the electrical conductorv together with the undesirable matter. Sand and' heavy ,sticks drop out of the ber.

Other objects of this invention will appear during the detailed descriptions and in connection with the single sheet of drawings Which are a part of this application.

Inthe drawing, V Fig. 1 represents a diagrammatic view of bins adapted to contain stock to be cleaned,

the element charged with a suitable current of. electricity being placed or located above the bins.

Fig. 2 illustrates a diagrammatic view of z5 a travelling belt or conveyor adapted to convey suitable stock, and having the electrically charged element either above or below the conveying side of the belt.

3 represents a diagrammatic view of a box, having as a part thereof, either plain o1' grid bars, the electrically 'charged element being suitably located either above or below the bars.

Figs. 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 illustrate modied l l5 forms of Figs. 1, 2 and 3, showing containers, conve ors land the like for stock consisting broa y, of textile bers, and vhaving properly located in respect thereto, electrically charged elements.

In this invention any suitable form of container or conveyor may be used for the stock which consists ordinarily of textile bers, these containers or'eonveyors may be of various types suchas b'ins 1, `boxes 8, belt 4l conveyor 3, box having grids 2, pipe conveyors 4, vertical opener 5 Fig. 5, horizontal' o ners 6 Fig. 6, screen, or -any other suita le type.

Numeral 2 represents any element that may be properly charged with a current 'of electricity. In Fig. 1, the stock may be in bins while the charged element is located above thereby ca the stockto loosen up and bers disentang e, in Fig. 2 the charged element is shown placed above and below the convey-V ing side of a belt, preferably having perforations therein, the element above the conveyor tending to open up the stock while the elements below would tend to open the stock and draw the undesirable items down and out.

Fig. 3 is a modication showing a trunk or box having either a plain surface or .Q'rid bars, the elements having the same eflfeet as described above. The conveyor pipe shown in' Fig. 4 is adapted to allow the stock to pass through, the electrically charged elements e'ecting it in the manner above disclosed.

Figs. 5 and 6 show diagrammatic forms of stockv openers of the vertical and horizontal types, the horizontal type being plain .or having grids,. and supplied with feed rolls or blast ed,'the charged elements tending to disentangle the bers of the stock in a manner claimed by this invention.

Fig. 7 discloses the charged element adapted to open up stock passing over or inside of a screen, while Fig. 8 designates the charged elements placed over, under, inside or at the side of any box or conveyor of stock. Nu- Ineral 9 represents perforations in the material 7 for forming a screen.- Numeral 10 designates a modied form of perforations that might be used in making the screen. It is to be understood that the screen in this invention may be formed, having perforations' of any suitable size or shape.

In operation this method consists of passing matted stock over or under an element suit- -ably charged with a current of proper voltage. The bers tend to disentangle themselves and separate from each other and are drawn toward this element. If the bers rise t0 a point where they contact with the element, they .become immediately of the same potential,. and drop down, the undesirable material either collecting on the 'element or dropping past into a box below, however, to 100 clean the stock it isv not necessary that the bers touch the element. v

This invention provides a novel method for opening, cleaning and blooming cotton or textile bers without any damage to the staple, 105 the undesirable matter falls out, or is drawn to the element. By this method the stock may -furthermore be considered as bloomed, to regain its natural bers put in better condition for the machines' that are used after 110 this method or process has beenresorted to.

What I claim is: l l. A method for opening, cleaning and blooming textile libers, `eonsisting of passing matted'stock near an element suitably charged with a. current of proper voltage. 2. A method for opening, eleaning and blooming textile fibers, consisting of passing matted stock near an element suitably charged with a Current of proper voltage, the element being located in a position adapted to disentangle the fibers and separate them from each other, thereby allowing undesirable matter to drop away from the stock. 3. A method for opening, cleaning and blooming textile libere, consisting of passing matted stock near an element suitably charged with a current or" proper volt-age, the element being located m a position adapt- 20 ed to disentangle the bers and. separate them from each other, the fibers coming in Contact with the element will become of the same electrical potential and drop, whereupon theundesirable matter in the stock will either collect on the element or pass into a suitable receptacle. g t

4. A method :for opening, cleaning and blooming textile fibers, consisting of passing matted stoel; near an elementsuitably Charged with a Current of proper voltages the element being located in a position adapted to disentangle the fibers and separate them' from each other, an. element placed above the stoel: tending to open up the material while the element below would tend to open the stock and draw the undesirable matter down and out of the stock.

ln testimony whereof aix my signature.

WLTER GAYLE. 

